Live and Let Die: Read the second gripping unforgettable James Bond novel (James Bond 007, 2)

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The first tears since his childhood came into James Bond’s blue-grey eyes and ran down his cheeks into the bloodstained sea. And it is in the spirit of Mao that we should be able to take the words of the dead (especially dead white men) and twist them to our own specific political agenda whatever that may be at any particular moment. Beginning with the movie adaptation of Dr No in 1961, the series also sparked the longest-running film franchise in history. Boucher concluded that Live and Let Die was "a lurid meller contrived by mixing equal parts of Oppenheim and Spillane".

There were no eyebrows and no eyelashes and the eyes were extraordinarily far apart so that one could not focus on them both, but only one at a time … they bulged slightly and the irises were golden round black pupils which were now wide. They drive to Ouroboros, passing a plethora of senior citizens along the way, where they find The Robber sitting outside. She had high cheekbones and a wide, sensual mouth which held a hint of cruelty … Part of the beauty of the face lay in its lack of compromise. Dust jacket with some minor chipping to the corners and spine ends, small closed tear on the top edges, light tanning. Development [ edit ] Plot inspirations [ edit ] The rufous-throated solitaire bird provided the name for the book's main female character.

I read some of the Ian Fleming books when I was a teenager, and decided to revisit them, these (very many) months or so on. The novel addresses the threat posed to both Britain and the United States in the form of the villainous Mr. Bond swims through shark- and barracuda-infested waters to Mr Big's island and manages to plant a limpet mine on the hull of his yacht before being captured once again by Mr Big. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has the First Printing point without the Lewis blurb printed on the front flap of the dustjacket.

Much of the novel draws from Fleming's personal experiences: the opening of the book, with Bond's arrival at New York's Idlewild Airport was inspired by Fleming's own journeys in 1941 and 1953, [16] and the warehouse at which Leiter is attacked by a shark was based on a similar building Fleming and his wife had visited in St. In doing so, they followed the same train route Fleming had taken with his friend Ivar Bryce in July 1943, when Fleming had first visited the island. The book is bound in the publisher's black cloth and is in great shape with minor wear to the spine. M, whose cold, shrewd gray eyes are often referred to throughout the series, begins his briefing by pulling out a number of gold coins, including a Rose Noble of Edward IV.This dust jacket is the first edition, second state dust jacket and has benefited from very slight restoration to the tip of the spine by an expert paper conservator and presents as a near fine example. Bond then meets with his two associates for the case, Captain Dexter and Felix Leiter (who had worked with Bond in the previous novel). Housed in a very good or better dust jacket that shows minor shelf wear to the ends and edges and some light soiling to the back panel; a couple of small areas to the spine and flap folds have been invisibly re-touched. But I only realised later on that actually she has pale skin, and therefore it’s almost that Bond is the white savour that rescued her from the bad black men.